Sony’s latest headphone refresh starts sensibly: the WH-CH730N offers up to 50 hours of listening with ANC, while the colorful WH-CH530 stretches to 55 hours. Then Hello Kitty walks in, bringing limited-edition bundles, exclusive accessories, and considerably more personality to Sony’s practical new everyday cans.
Six years after the WH-1000XM4 became a noise-cancelling favorite, Sony is giving it another lap. The new WH-1000XM4C preserves the foldable design and famously effective ANC, retunes the sound for modern tastes, adds a 10-band equalizer, and introduces Lavender for anyone tired of serious-looking headphones.
Apple’s open-ear AirPods no longer make you pay extra for noise cancellation. Both AirPods 5 models now get ANC, improved sound, and tougher IP57 protection, while Siri responds to head gestures and Live Translation handles conversations across languages. Volume swipes, wireless charging, and longer battery life remain paid extras.
Apple’s latest watches may know how ready you are before you do. The Ultra 4 and Series 12 combine activity, training load, vitals, and sleep into a daily readiness score, then add longer workout tracking, faster charging, Siri AI, and a coming Live Rewind feature that displays recent conversation as text.
Apple’s first foldable may have stolen the keynote, but the iPhone 18 Pro models brought a hardware trick photographers have waited years to see: a genuinely variable camera aperture. Add the A20 Pro chip, redesigned cooling, longer battery life, and new photo-authenticity tools, and the annual upgrade suddenly looks far less routine.
Apple has entered the foldable-phone race with the iPhone Duo, pairing a pocketable 5.4-inch cover screen with a 7.6-inch inner display, A20 Pro power, and iOS 27 multitasking. The hardware sounds formidable, but Apple’s careful wording about the crease—and silence on fold endurance—leaves two important questions unanswered.
The latest Godzilla Minus Zero trailer may be hiding something bigger than another kaiju attack. Takashi Yamazaki’s sequel is the first Japanese production filmed for IMAX, but eagle-eyed fans may be more interested in a suspicious anti-gravity moment buried among the destruction.
Most articulated EVA-01 figures cannot hide the fact that they are toys. Infinity Studio’s 36 cm interpretation comes unnervingly close, concealing its alloy skeleton beneath silicone skin while retaining extreme poseability. Illuminated eyes, UV-reactive armor, magnetic feet, and oversized weapons complete this unusually organic take on Evangelion’s biomechanical giant.
Most die-cast cars are content to sit quietly and look pretty. TOMY+ has other plans for Dom’s 1970 Dodge Charger R/T, recreating the Fast & Furious icon in 1:10 scale with a rumbling engine, moving supercharger, working lights and gauges, and even mysterious burnout effects.
Hyrule’s legendary darkness-sealing blade has been reborn as a 27-inch electronic roleplay toy, complete with iconic music and more than 15 sounds triggered by movement and impact. It cannot defeat Ganondorf, but it can make swinging a toy sword around the living room feel considerably more heroic.
Motorola has a new gadget for your pocket, another for your wrist, and one for the nightstand. Its IFA 2026 haul includes a 200-megapixel Edge 70 Plus, an LTE-equipped Moto Watch Ultra with Polar fitness tracking, and a magnetic Moto Snap charger capable of delivering up to 30W.